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While the Locust Slept: A Memoir (Native Voices)

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In stark, haunting prose, first-time writer Peter Razor recalls his early years as a ward of the State of Minnesota. Disclosing his story through flashbacks and relying on research from his own case files, Razor pieces together the shattered fragments of his boyhood into a memoir that reads as compellingly as a novel.

Abandoned as an infant on the State Public School in Owatonna, Minnesota, Peter Razor is raised by abusive workers who considered him as nothing more than “a dirty Injun.” Bring to an end from his circle of relatives and his heritage, he turns inward, forced to be informed concerning the world on his own. After failed attempts to run away from the orphanage, he’s indentured by the state to an abusive, reclusive farm circle of relatives. Beaten, poorly fed, clothed in rags, and worked like slave labor, he struggles to attend high school and begins to dream of any other life. Razor’s stark and incessantly chilling story, devoid of self-pity, recalls with haunting clarity the years he, like the locust, patiently waited to awaken and emerge.

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